Encouraging Your Teens to Eat Breakfast

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day… so the saying goes. But try telling that to your family! My younger brother used to hit the snooze on his alarm clock until the last possible second, then throw on some close and rush off to high school without eating. There are lots of “good” reasons for skipping breakfast: I wanted to sleep in. There’s nothing good to eat. It takes too long to make something. I’m not hungry when I first wake up. I want to lose weight. But research has shown that eating breakfast can help boost concentration … Continue reading

Skipping Breakfast Will Not Help You Lose Weight

Most people who lose weight and keep it off are breakfast eaters. There is a reason for that. “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day” is not just something cereal companies came up with to sell cereal. Eating breakfast helps people to manage their hunger better and thereby make better food choices throughout the day. James O. Hill, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado, says that breakfast helps us to spread out our hunger and manage food choices better throughout the day. He also says that people who eat breakfast don’t get … Continue reading

Top 5 Dieting Myths

Unfortunately, I’ve Fallen For All of Them… Today I got to thinking about dieting myths-there are a million out there, but which ones do we believe and which ones cause us to fail at our new eating regimens? As I start counting my Weight Watchers points again ever so carefully, I thought I’d share some serious misconceptions that plague us dieters…and yes, I’ve believed practically all of them—so hopefully by reading this, you won’t. 1.Skipping Meals Will Help Me Lose Weight. While it sounds like a good plan, evidence proves that skipping a meal or two will probably make you … Continue reading